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Album Review
Ahmed Warshanna: Ishta
by Mike Jurkovic
Maybe it's the underlying sound of Baltimorethe cry of nurses, the sirens rushingthat leavens his tone and tenor. Maybe it's the innocent in the shadow of a world that seems like it is closing in no matter how many walls one knocks down. Perhaps in real time retrospect, it's the genre-less style of his writing or the sly, collective voices of his septet, but Ahmed Warshanna's Istha is one of those debuts where you find yourself wanting more.
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